Roderick Williams, Mary Bevan, Nicky Spence - Ralph Vaughan Williams: Folk Songs Vol. 4 (2022) [Official Digital Download]

This is the fourth and final volume in a series of albums recording all 81 of the folk songs in English that Ralph Vaughan Williams arranged for voice and piano or violin. 57 songs have not previously been recorded in these arrangements. This album has 19 tracks including 13 world premières.All but four of the songs were collected by Maud Karpeles in Newfoundland in 1929 and 1930. When she got back, she and Vaughan Williams spent some hours going through everything that she had found, selecting the 15 songs presented here - with an emphasis, it seems, on the sadder songs. As a result, many people will find this the most enjoyable album of the set. Maud Karpeles said that her life would have been worthwhile if collecting She’s Like the Swallow had been all that she had done.

Track List:
01. Folksongs for Schools (Excerpts): No. 1, The Jolly Ploughboy [Version for Solo Voice & Piano]
02. Folksongs for Schools (Excerpts): No. 2, The Cuckoo and the Nightingale [Version for Solo Voice & Piano]
03. Folksongs for Schools (Excerpts): No. 3, Servant Man and Husbandman
04. The Turtle Dove (Arr. R. Vaughan Williams for Voice & Piano)
05. 15 Folksongs from Newfoundland (Arr. R. Vaughan Williams for Voice & Piano): No. 1, Sweet William's Ghost
06. 15 Folksongs from Newfoundland (Arr. R. Vaughan Williams for Voice & Piano): No. 2, The Cruel Mother
07. 15 Folksongs from Newfoundland (Arr. R. Vaughan Williams for Voice & Piano): No. 3, The Gypsy Laddie
08. 15 Folksongs from Newfoundland (Arr. R. Vaughan Williams for Voice & Piano): No. 4, The Bloody Gardener
09. 15 Folksongs from Newfoundland (Arr. R. Vaughan Williams for Voice & Piano): No. 8, The Bonny Banks of Virgie-O
10. 15 Folksongs from Newfoundland (Arr. R. Vaughan Williams for Voice & Piano): No. 9, Earl Brand
11. 15 Folksongs from Newfoundland (Arr. R. Vaughan Williams for Voice & Piano): No. 10, Lord Akeman
12. 15 Folksongs from Newfoundland (Arr. R. Vaughan Williams for Voice & Piano): No. 11, The Lover's Ghost
13. 15 Folksongs from Newfoundland (Arr. R. Vaughan Williams for Voice & Piano): No. 12, She's Like the Swallow
14. 15 Folksongs from Newfoundland (Arr. R. Vaughan Williams for Voice & Piano): No. 5, The Maiden's Lament
15. 15 Folksongs from Newfoundland (Arr. R. Vaughan Williams for Voice & Piano): No. 6, Proud Nancy
16. 15 Folksongs from Newfoundland (Arr. R. Vaughan Williams for Voice & Piano): No. 7, The Morning Dew
17. 15 Folksongs from Newfoundland (Arr. R. Vaughan Williams for Voice & Piano): No. 14, The Winter's Gone and Past
18. 15 Folksongs from Newfoundland (Arr. R. Vaughan Williams for Voice & Piano): No. 15, The Cuckoo
19. 15 Folksongs from Newfoundland (Arr. R. Vaughan Williams for Voice & Piano): No. 13, Young Floro